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Monday 11 July 2011
Focus on advanced processes: Q&A with Alchip chairman Kinying Kwan
Founded in 2003 by semiconductor veterans from Silicon Valley and Japan, Alchip provides silicon design and manufacturing services for companies developing complex and high-volume...
Friday 8 July 2011
TSMC 2Q11 sales meet guidance
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported NT$36.67 billion (US$1.28 billion) in consolidated revenues for June 2011, down 0.1% on month but up 0.9% on year. The...
Friday 8 July 2011
Planned launch of Nvidia 28nm and 22/20nm GPUs moved back to 2012 and 2014
Despite Nvidia CEO Huang Jen-hsun previously saying that the company is set to announce its new 28nm GPU architecture at the end of 2011 and 22/20nm in 2013, sources from graphics...
Friday 8 July 2011
Chip inventories swell in 2Q11, says IHS iSuppli
Semiconductor inventory levels at chip suppliers worldwide are believed to have risen for the seventh consecutive month in a row in the second quarter of 2011, as the industry rebuilds...
Thursday 7 July 2011
TSMC to lose Liang, says paper
Mong-Song Liang will resign from the faculty of National Tsinghua University (Hsinchu, northern Taiwan) at the end of July, and is ready for his new career at Korea-based Samsung...
Thursday 30 June 2011
OmniVision to buy wafer-level lens manufacturing unit from JV
OmniVision Technologies has announced plans to buy the wafer-level lens production operations from VisEra Technologies, its joint venture with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
Friday 24 June 2011
Orders for tablets to account for 3% of TSMC 2011 revenues, says paper
Orders for chips for tablet PCs are likely to contribute only a small percentage to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) consolidated revenues in 2011, and even 2012,...
Thursday 23 June 2011
Freescale unveils 28nm QorIQ multicore processors
Freescale Semiconductor has unveiled its next-generation QorIQ multicore platform built on 28nm technology – the AMP (advanced multiprocessing) series – which incorporates...
Thursday 23 June 2011
TSMC 2Q11 sales expected to meet guidance
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) consolidated revenues are expected to meet the company's guidance of NT$109-111 billion (US$3.8-3.9 billion), according to market...
Wednesday 22 June 2011
TSMC, UMC likely to lower capex budgets for 2011, says paper
Taiwan's two foundry giants are likely to revise downward their capex goals for 2011 due to worries that orders in the second half of the year may not be large enough to fill their...
Tuesday 21 June 2011
British, Taiwan solar firms to hold seminar
The British Trade and Cultural Office (BTCO) in Taiwan will be holding "UK Solar PV Market Development Seminar" in Taiwan on June 21. The purpose of the seminar is to introduce...
Monday 20 June 2011
Foundries seeing slower growth in wafer starts for 3Q11, say sources
Contract chipmakers Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have seen their clients cut back on wafer starts for the third...
Friday 17 June 2011
TSMC wins orders for 28nm GPU from AMD, says paper
AMD reportedly has completed the tape-out of its next-generation GPU, codenamed Southern Islands, on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) 28nm process with High-k Metal...
Wednesday 15 June 2011
TI reportedly cuts wafer starts at TSMC, UMC
Texas Instruments (TI) has cut its orders to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), according to sources in the industry...
Wednesday 15 June 2011
TSMC to spin off solar and LED lighting business units in August
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced on June 14 it plans to officially spin off its solar and solid state lighting business units on August 1. TSMC's shares...